A drag queen takes part in the Gay Pride Parade at Paulista Avenue in the financial centre of Sao Paulo, on May 25, 2008. (Getty Images)

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We're here, not queer, get used to it? Sao Paolo's city council has just passed legislation designating an official Heterosexual Pride Day to be held on the third Sunday of each December, the AP reports. Mayor Gilberto Kassab must sign the bill before it goes into effect, however, and he hasn't said if he will. The bill's author, Carlos Apolinario, insists it's "not anti-gay, but a protest against the privileges the gay community enjoys."

Apolinario complained, for example, that the city's massive gay pride parade is allowed to march down Paulista Avenue—a major thoroughfare—while the March for Jesus is not. "I have no trouble coexisting with gays as long as their behavior is normal," Apolinario said. But the Brazilian LGBT Association thinks the legislation will provoke homophobic violence. "It belittles the just cause of the LGBT community," the group said in a statement. "Unlike homosexuals, heterosexuals are not discriminated against simply for being heterosexuals."

This aught to be a hate filled anti-gay rally. Go to a gay pride parade and you won't find one anti-heterosexual banner or conversation. Its all about bringing attention to the lack of equal rights. It would be good if the heterosexual pride festival would also fight for equal rights for everyone.

carbonatedturtle

Aug 4, 2011 12:26 PM CDT

This is no worse of an idea than gay pride parades. By having a parade to celebrate your sexuality it's like you're trying to bring attention to your differences. The goal should not be to separate everyone into groups based on sexuality. If a group of people are walking down the middle of a street screaming about how different they are, I think it only impedes their chances of being accepted by everyone and treated equally.

Bunnyman09

Aug 4, 2011 9:57 AM CDT

Heterosexuals are a fucking blight. Next thing you know they'll be demanding to be married in a Catholic church.